Re: Bluetooth, WiFi and Zecke's feeds?

2008-08-20 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Christ van Willegen wrote: Hi, I'm using 2008.8 with Zecke's testing and dev feeds. At the moment, I can enable WiFi from the settings menu, but am unable to associate with my router (someone on IRC hinted that I sould run wpa_supplicant in debug mode, and it

Re: Qtopia issues with 4.3.2-080808

2008-08-13 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Lorn Potter wrote: Jim Morris wrote: Lorn Potter wrote: 3. I can pair my bluetooth headset, but it won't work with calls. I am able to ring it through the bluetooth dialog, and it does show as an option when I make a call, but if I select it, there is no

Re: Om2008.8 comments and questions

2008-08-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 12 August 2008, Helmut Tessarek wrote: ad 2) I was not able to migrate my phonebook from om2007 to om2008. I had a backup from my home dir and I had the .vcf files on my sd card. Well, entering my 500 contacts is not an option. The keyboard is more or less useless, since it takes at

Re: GPS rework: Please test and report on software fix prior to attempting any hardware fix

2008-08-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Andy Green wrote: | d i min / avg / max | 0 0 35.20/ 55.33/144.30 === | 0 1 37.39/ 77.76/315.76 | | 3 0 36.07/ 42.07/ 47.82 === | 3 1 97.46/173.09/359.69 These relative numbers are a bit counterintuitive... it might be worth trying it again from a

Re: GPS rework: Please test and report on software fix prior to attempting any hardware fix

2008-08-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Andy Green wrote: | sysfs entries! From the same location some runs have a best ttff of ~150s I guess it means there are random accesses to SD Card in background. Perhaps, but I think I saw similar variation from the same location with the SD card removed when the

Re: any update on GSM interference issue

2008-08-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 05 August 2008, arne anka wrote: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/02/kill-gsm-radio-buzz.html Maybe that could provide a less invasive means to getting rid of the problem? jOERG proposed using a ferrite bead on the wired headset a while ago in a german forum

Re: GPS rework: Please test and report on software fix prior to attempting any hardware fix

2008-08-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Michael Shiloh wrote: Agreed. I've been trying to gather that information for the past little while. It's proven rather elusive, and I didn't want more people to try the hardware fix until we really understand what the software fix can do, so I thought I'd better ask

Re: any update on GSM interference issue

2008-08-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Josh Thompson wrote: On Monday August 04, 2008, Andy Green wrote: AFAIK in hardware this should be possible -- BT audio comes in on VX digital interface of WM8753 and there should be a path to get in and out of that to RXN/P pair and MONO1/2 pair. So, I found

Re: any update on GSM interference issue

2008-08-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 05 August 2008, arne anka wrote: The ferrite is increasing the common mode inductance of the cable because the ferrite has a better magnetic permeability than air. Taping the ferrite to the cable is a bit like a half turn on a ferrite rod. It will still affect the

Re: Freerunner GPS not working

2008-08-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 01 August 2008, Jan Keymeulen wrote: Hi, I'm unable to get a GPS fix on my Freerunner, S/N 8A8602882. I'm using a Linux om-gta02 2.6.24 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 30 11:56:48 CEST 2008 kernel with the stock 2007.2 that came with the Freerunner. After trying agpsui as descibed in the wiki

Re: Warranty after fix for GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interferenceissue

2008-08-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 01 August 2008, Vinc Duran wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Andreas Bogk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm not a mathematician, but I think I have sufficiently understood Kalman filters and dead reckoning. A little known trick is to use ordinary integration with the

Re: buildhost.openmoko.org issues.

2008-08-01 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 01 August 2008, Lech Karol Pawłaszek wrote: Hello. I wonder if there is something going on with buildhost.openmoko.org. I am unable to update packages list nor install new packages via opkg for two days now. I am unable to wget

Re:

2008-07-31 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 31 July 2008, Lynn Nguyen wrote: Hmm are there any benefits to booting from an sd card? I think I would prefer not to if possible. With the SD you can dual-boot, triple-boot or whatever. This lets you keep a stable system and a testing system, or to pick whether you want to boot

Re: Warranty after fix for GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interferenceissue

2008-07-31 Thread Al Johnson
This one? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Gta02_gps_10pf_rework_sop.pdf On Thursday 31 July 2008, steve wrote: Do folks know wher to find the SOP for the cap fix? Tony, if you havent already, go ahead and post the SOP for the cap fix. It's easy enough to do And undo.

Re:

2008-07-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Lynn Nguyen wrote: Hi all! Well, I'm a little new to this (as I'm sure everybody says when they are posting for the first time), but I was wondering, how can I free up space on the neo? Are there any packages that are not necessary? I somehow find myself using up

Re: minimo (browser on freerunner)

2008-07-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, henrikz wrote: arne anka wrote: i just built minimo and cellwriter for the freerunner (gta02), which went surprisingly well ... hi i bumped into another keyboard related issue with minimo. suddenly i couldnt erase nor overwrite the default URL and visit

Re: numptyphysics ipk

2008-07-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Michael Kluge wrote: Hi all, the first build for the ipk for numptyphysics can be grabbed here: http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~mkluge/numptyphysics_0.2_armv4t.ipk For usage etc. see the project home page: http://numptyphysics.garage.maemo.org Great fun,

Re: numptyphysics ipk

2008-07-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Greg Bonett wrote: how did you get libsdl installed? opkg install libsdl doesn't work for me opkg complained it couldn't meet dependencies for libsdl and libsdl-image, but opkg list_installed showed they were already installed. I just installed with -nodeps and it

Re: external GSM antenna

2008-07-30 Thread Al Johnson
You can always look for other suppliers. $29 any better for you? http://www.componentsuperstore.com/store/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductIdentifier=MXHS83QE3000MURATA9833294 On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Scott wrote: Joerg, You realize the MXHS83QE3000 is $69 !!! For a itsy bitty connector?

Re: suspend and immediate wake-up

2008-07-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 28 July 2008, arne anka wrote: I have the same issue (not always but sometimes),.. and this comes probably not from GSM network messages... Because it happens over and over again (once this issue happens). i've gotten the impression that the acceleration sensors play an

Re: How to customize the Power button menu

2008-07-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: Of course I also need to know how to put the Neo on sleep... :-) apm -s ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Marek Lindner wrote: Hi, At the same time we heard comments from a key developer who indicated that the decision was made above him by unnamed individuals with whom the community has no obvious means of communication, and who apparently don't even listen to the

Re: mark a missed call as seen

2008-07-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, reaper527 wrote: is there any way to mark a missed call as seen? for example on my old phone, if i got a missed call, i would get notification on the main screen, and then hitting a button would take me to the list of missed calls, and the phone would acknowledge i

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Al Johnson
Many thanks for the direct answers. This is what I've been hoping for. I'll snip most of it to keep the length reasonable. On Tuesday 29 July 2008, William Lai wrote: No bad intentions for snipping, Just trying to get to the facts: Brian C wrote: Snipped 3) If the design department is

Re: Is there some way to turn the predictive dictionary off?

2008-07-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:12:08 +0100 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: ok. now in illume svn there is code to confiugre what keyboard you want (illume's, none at all (which means if qpe provides one that will be used), or some other one

Re: Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Marek Lindner wrote: On Wednesday, 30. July 2008 04:57:27 Chris Wright wrote: Something as simple as a keyboard button -- well, users were complaining about its lack very quickly. If the design team were also users, then they would have insisted that the error be

Re: USB connector not Mini-AB?

2008-07-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 28 July 2008, Andy Green wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: http://www.electronicproductonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id =1781 | Will the next Freerunner revision have a proper mini USB-AB | receptacle like the one at |

Re: USB connector not Mini-AB?

2008-07-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 28 July 2008, Andy Green wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | The Freerunner's USB port is that widely used on other devices as a | USB mini B connector. Seems you guys are right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Types_of_USB_connector ... hum well they all have 5

Re: Howto compile more kernel modules with MokoMakefile?

2008-07-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 28 July 2008, Jay Vaughan wrote: I want to compile the USB GADGED STORAGE module for the kernel how I have to do this? You can't use other Gadget devices currently, because Gadget-Ethernet is compiled into the kernel (not as a module) and this precludes any other gadget drivers

Re: Howto compile more kernel modules with MokoMakefile?

2008-07-28 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 28 July 2008, Jay Vaughan wrote: You can't use other Gadget devices currently, because Gadget-Ethernet is compiled into the kernel (not as a module) and this precludes any other gadget drivers from loading. As I am currently working on Gadget Audio for the Freerunner, I too

Re: Is there some way to turn the predictive dictionary off?

2008-07-25 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 25 July 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: What about checking hal at startup (then subsequently monitoring hal events) to see if a device with input.keyboard in its info.capabilities list exists or is added/removed? I'm planning on getting a USB keyboard (a frogpad) to use with

Re: Now that you have your phone, what are you doing?

2008-07-25 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 25 July 2008, Alex Fitzpatrick wrote: arne anka wrote: flashing u-boot and using a recent kernel makes suspend/resume working rather acceptable (wakes up reliable and saves power, though it keeps waking up frequently), may corrupt your sd card though, at least if the 4gig.

Re: Volume?

2008-07-25 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 25 July 2008, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2008/7/24 Aaron Sowry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would also like a solution to the echo that people hear when calling the phone - anyone found a fix for this? I've not seen any post about having the echo fixed. It seems the discussion always stops at

Re: GPS software fix, just CRUFT?

2008-07-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Scott wrote: Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Di 22. Juli 2008 schrieb Scott Derrick: With the GPS hardware fix done(10pf cap installed) are the software changes to the kernel/modules just added cruft? IE. do they add anything useful? SW is definitely better

Re: Volume?

2008-07-24 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Brian C wrote: Bastian Muck wrote: julien cubizolles schrieb: | Le jeudi 17 juillet 2008 à 17:53 +0200, papa-piet a écrit : | Hi, | I didn't tested it yet but maybe this will help: | | http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=5t=170start=75#p32 |77

Re: posting

2008-07-24 Thread Al Johnson
Welcome. It looks like you've succeeded in posting, so I guess we don't need to answer that one. As to the Neo 1973 problems, ask away! One small point - it would be nice if you could post plain text as well as, or instead of, html. On Thursday 24 July 2008, ashley elphick wrote: !DOCTYPE

Re: Fast questions (email, GPRS, WiFi...)

2008-07-24 Thread Al Johnson
It's also worth using wpa_cli to see whether wpa_supplicant it associating with the AP properly. On Thursday 24 July 2008, Jim Morris wrote: Make sure you do ifdown usb0 before ifup eth0 Then if dhcp does not get a lease first time through (which for me is about 50/50) then you can do this

Re: Anyone using FR as a phone?

2008-07-23 Thread Al Johnson
- the Mono mixer setting should control the level from the bluetooth into the GSM On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Scott Derrick wrote: Come on! Blame the telcos for the Neo echo!! Thats stretching it. Take a breath. Reread what

Re: GTA02 GPS rework for SD card interference issue

2008-07-23 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Yorick Moko wrote: i tried to walk with tangogps and sometimes i jumed 1-2 km in a random direction and kept drifting there were no roads in openstreetmaps for my location, could this influence it? I saw something similar yesterday with tangogps. The red track

Re: Anyone using FR as a phone?

2008-07-22 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Scott Derrick wrote: Come on! Blame the telcos for the Neo echo!! Thats stretching it. Take a breath. Reread what I said. I'm not blaming them, but they may be a factor in why people report widely differing levels of echo.

Re: Anyone using FR as a phone?

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Cédric Berger wrote: Sound quality during calls is indeed not that good. 1. Volume is usually too low, but I think it can be modified via correct settings. Seems like people not always hear me at the same level : sometimes quite ok, often really too low. I have yet

Re: USB connector not Mini-AB?

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: see: http://www.electronicproductonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id =1781 /j It mentions automatic mode switch from client to host. Is this applicable to the Freerunner too? ___ Openmoko

Re: problem booting to NOR?

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Steve Leung wrote: Hi.. I hope someone can point out what I'm doing wrong. I want to boot into my Freerunner's NOR to try flashing different images, but I can't get it to work. I've followed what's on the wiki, and all I get is a brief pop or crackle from the

Re: USB connector not Mini-AB?

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Mikko Rauhala wrote: ma, 2008-07-21 kello 10:24 +0100, Andy Green kirjoitti: We don't monitor ID pin yet to automate this, but we will. Funky. You need to provide some magic sysfs poking by hand at the moment to push it between host and device modes. ~ echo

Re: USB connector not Mini-AB?

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Andy Green wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Monday 21 July 2008, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: | see: http://www.electronicproductonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id | =1781 /j | | It mentions automatic mode switch from client to host.

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: the problem is the designers decided that ASU is not to have any manual keyboard toggle button because it will disturb the design and/or confuse users, so all apps and toolkits need modification to talk a protocol to bring up the keyboard on

Re: Anyone using FR as a phone? / Audio Codec meddling info

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Andy Green wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: snip my comment about alsa settings bypassing the ALC I don't know why we go around it, but when I looked mic - GSM routing some weeks ago I also found a very direct analogue path. If you're interested to

Re: Terminal for ASU

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:32:47 +0100 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Monday 21 July 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: the problem is the designers decided that ASU is not to have any manual keyboard toggle button because

Re: Anyone using FR as a phone?

2008-07-21 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 21 July 2008, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2008/7/21 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Assuming there is sufficient difference in level between voice level and the level from the earpiece it should be possible to set the noise gate so that it only triggers when you are actually speaking

Re: Ekiga for Openmoko, petition,

2008-07-19 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 18 July 2008, andres wrote: As I feel anxious about running an extension of my asterisk in the Freerunner, I wrote an email to the Ekiga people asking them to provide a Openmoko compiled binary for it. Linphone is in OE and looks like it'll work once I work out which audio device to

Re: tmobile wifi voice calls

2008-07-18 Thread Al Johnson
, preferring wifi/sip (or their equiv) when available, that would kick ass Chris On Jul 17, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Al Johnson wrote: On Thursday 17 July 2008, Carl Karsten wrote: Make and receive unlimited nationwide calls over Wi-Fi with your home phone. http://www.t

Re: Does this MokoMakefile build error matter?

2008-07-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 18 July 2008, Vijay Vaidyanathan wrote: I'm trying to create an amazon EC2 image that will have a pre-built ASU (including the .o files yes, I realize this might be a 12G+ image!) I'm using MokoMakefile, and I've fixed a few minor problems along the way on Ubuntu 8.04 (and will

Re: Import contacts

2008-07-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 18 July 2008, Markus Schlichting wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Juli 2008 07:14:13 schrieb Curtis Vaughan: I use Thunderbird for Email. I want to export my contacts from the Address Book and import them to FR. I don't see any instructions on how to do that. In fact, the only solutions

Re: suspend and immediate wake-up

2008-07-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 18 July 2008, julien cubizolles wrote: I' m experiencing some problems with the suspend mode, wich seems maybe different from the ones related in the battery-problems thread, so I'm starting a new thread. Most of the time when I put the Freerunner in suspend mode (apm -s or the

Re: Proper mixer settings for music playback, or hardware fixes?

2008-07-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 18 July 2008, Ole Kliemann wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:17:05PM +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote: I had heard about some resistor in wrong place resulting in high-pass filter and basically making music listening unbearable. Do you still remember where you read it? I have some

Re: Proper mixer settings for music playback, or hardware fixes?

2008-07-18 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 18 July 2008, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Fr 18. Juli 2008 schrieb Al Johnson: On Friday 18 July 2008, Ole Kliemann wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:17:05PM +0300, Timo Jyrinki wrote: I had heard about some resistor in wrong place resulting in high-pass filter

Re: GPS problems, summary

2008-07-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Kai Römer wrote: Hi people, 2008/7/16 Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With the help of AGPS you can shorten it probably to 15 seconds. I have heard this for about thousand times now. NO! Never got those values. TTFF with AGPS is about 38 secs without AGPS about 48

Re: tmobile wifi voice calls

2008-07-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Carl Karsten wrote: Make and receive unlimited nationwide calls over Wi-Fi with your home phone. http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/cell-phone-plans-detail.aspx?tp=tb1rate [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone know if the FR will work with whatever VoIP protocol t-mobile uses?

Re: Battery Lifetime

2008-07-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Andy Green wrote: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Subject to wakeups caused by cell reregistration this is true. This isn't a | complaint - keep reading ;-) It does a wake to full backlight too, which is | distracting and wastes power Backlight

Re: Ears and FR

2008-07-17 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Hans L wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:31 PM, AVee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should be fairly doable if I understand the accelerometer stuff correctly. During a call the phone should be unlocked when its horizontal or vertical. Any other angle probably means

Re: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Federico Lorenzi wrote: So from my understanding the FR can run off USB but not boot off it? Software issue, not hardware. Once uBoot is updated to a recent version the FR should be able to boot off USB power with no battery. You will have to do this using dfu-util -

Re: A Few Questions (Regarding images, wpa_supplicant, and core programs)

2008-07-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are a few questions as I'm getting myself situation with the FreeRunner: 1. My Messages program seems to take forever to load text messages from a contact. Loading the list of contacts is great, and writing SMS to a contact also works

Re: LEDs

2008-07-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, julien cubizolles wrote: Are the LEDS supposed to be working now ? I'm using the factory image upgraded through opkg upgrade but have not seen any light so far. The LEDs work - you can control them by echoing values to the right part of /sys/devices/platform - but

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: 2008/7/15 Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The good news: *IF* all pans out, there's (or soon will be) a new kernel at Andy branch that stops SD-card clock when SDcard is idle. We hope this will almost cure the problem, at least reduce

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 16 July 2008, C R McClenaghan wrote: All, I get the following error using manage-contacts.py in the following way from SSH: python manage-contacts.py load vCards.vcf [removed listing of first vcard entry] Traceback (most recent call last): File manage-contacts.py, line

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, thomasg wrote: Hi ppl, I write this to community, not to devel or owners because everyone should know: *sbeh*, one of the people in #neo1973-germany IRC-channel found the reason for the GPS problems. The problem only occurs if a SD card is set in. Doesn't matter if

Re: Volume?

2008-07-15 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Emilis Dambauskas wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Edward A. Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For now, the only ones you care about are the Headphone and PCM volumes. Respectively, these are the master volume and the volume of the software-generated sounds.

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Kalle Happonen wrote: Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: indeed, especially since I see possibility for it to be twofold: if it is not purely an issue of SD card in place putting physical stress on the board somehow (would be worth checking with dummy plastic insert

Re: GPS

2008-07-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 14 July 2008, BlueStar88 wrote: Russell Sears schrieb: That sounds like a different problem than I have. People have reported many different failure modes: - Everything works. The phone gets a reliable fix in ~5-15 minutes if you baby it enough. (This might be improved

Re: Claws Mail

2008-07-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 14 July 2008, Joachim Steiger wrote: arne anka wrote: did anyone succeed in building this package? I only got libtinymail tmut compiled packed up to now. yupp. got it built and running. will load it up to ginguppin.de tonight (note to self: learn how to create a feed)

Re: Can't boot Freerunner without battery - Was: Re: unable to start up freerunner after batterie was full down

2008-07-14 Thread Al Johnson
The phone can't take 100mA from USB without asking, and the PMU enforces this. The AC PSU can supply more than this, as can most USB ports, but at this stage of the process the checks to see if this is available can't be done so we're limited to 100mA. When the old uBoot powered up the assorted

Re: GPS

2008-07-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 14 July 2008, arne anka wrote: So we just need to wrap 'save' and 'restore' scripts around the gpsd script? Basically yes, but this won't fix the problem. It's for later when the what exactly is the gpsd for, anyway? looking at my fr yesterday i noticed it is not installed

Re: Claws Mail

2008-07-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 14 July 2008, arne anka wrote: as promised, i uploaded a tar ball with everything belonging to claws-mail to ginguppin.de/node/17 included are libetpan11 and ibgnutls, at least libetpan11 (whatever it does) is not available from the feeds. if dependencies are missing, drop a mail.

Re: GPS

2008-07-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 14 July 2008, C R McClenaghan wrote: Here are my results of pumping NMEA data from the FreeRunner to another GPS client and pumping NMEA data from another GPS device to the Freerunner. FR - GPSy (Mac OS X client) - could not get a fix on NMEA data Garmin 10 - FR - tangoGPS worked

Re: Setting / checking fast charge in /sys/devices/platform/whatever

2008-07-14 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 14 July 2008, Stroller wrote: Hi there, It looks like my problem with SIM registration [1] may be easily solvable simply by trying a different SIM or reseating the current one. But because I'm fetishistic about following battery charging instructions I don't want to try this

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: steve wrote: Magic 47 ohm resistor will get you 1A. its on the wiki somewhere. Thanks... Should be that on the ID pin? Should be 47k ohm from ID pin to ground. Description is on:

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Friday 11 July 2008, Kalle Happonen wrote: Hi, Brian C wrote: Brian C wrote: [a long error message because he didn't run the script from the OM terminal] Ok, so the script runs now that I realize it must be run from the OM terminal. It might work from an ssh session if you run:

Re: GPS

2008-07-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 12 July 2008, William Kenworthy wrote: Does it make any difference to leave the gps running 15 minutes plus (probably a few multiples of 15 minutes is best) then power off for a few minutes and then back on? No. Every time you power off the GPS it loses the data from the sats. At

Re: Fast questions (email, GPRS, WiFi...)

2008-07-12 Thread Al Johnson
There is an unofficial set of instructions at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_wlan I've added the wpa-conf line to /etc/network/interfaces and it usually works, with the caveats at the bottom of that page, and so long as I've dropped usb0 or otherwise sorted the routing. Any improvement

Re: Web Browser Zoom?

2008-07-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Michael Kluge wrote: Brian C schrieb: I can't figure out how to zoom in/out while using the web browser (and/or change the font size). Is this functionality not yet coded or am I missing something? Right now the fonts are too big and I see far too little of the

Re: What version of the Freerunners OS has the best SIM card support?

2008-07-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Adam Talbot wrote: What version of the FreeRunner's OS has the best SIM card support? Spent the last week fighting with SIM cards. Just want it to run. Is this even controlled by the OS, or is it something deeper? I figure it's

Re: Web Browser Zoom?

2008-07-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Michael Kluge wrote: Al Johnson schrieb: On Saturday 12 July 2008, Michael Kluge wrote: Brian C schrieb: I can't figure out how to zoom in/out while using the web browser (and/or change the font size). Is this functionality not yet coded or am I missing

Re: Clarifications of downloadable file types

2008-07-10 Thread Al Johnson
On Thursday 10 July 2008, Randy Schnedler wrote: Hi all. I am an experienced developer, though not so much with Linux development. As I await the arrival of my FR, I have tried to prepare some different things I want to try. What sort of background? It might help someone else give better

Re: Internal Connections

2008-07-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Charles Pax wrote: Is there any way to commmunicate with the Freerunner through an internal connection (USB or serial, not I2C)? This would be useful in creating a bar code/RFID tag reader into the back cover. If not, is something like this planned for a future

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 09 July 2008, smurfy - phil wrote: Hey, i added a small script and infos at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts how to import vcf contacts to the default 2007.2 contacts application Phil Does this work for files containing more than one contact, or just for

Re: Import Contacts

2008-07-09 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Al Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 09 July 2008, smurfy - phil wrote: Hey, i added a small script and infos at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Import_Vcf_Contacts how to import vcf contacts to the default 2007.2 contacts application Phil Does this work

Re: GPS

2008-07-08 Thread Al Johnson
/ to get another extimation of the location of FR. They are usually quite accurate. Would this help? 2008/7/7 Yogiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:37:08 +0100 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the testing. Keep doing the good work. Hopefully this idea can solve

Re: GPS

2008-07-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Jay Vaughan wrote: In the link you can see the coordinates and use the spreadsheet attached to his mail to calculate the right x,y,z. This works very well, i've been able to get a fix easy now. Could you do a step-by-step guide for how to do this, and put it on

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
the antenna signal qualities. Maybe a cable is broken or there is a short circuit on the main board. I ll report about the results. CU Kai 2008/7/6 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From what I've seen on the wiki the version of the Antares4 on the GTA02 doesn't have the memory

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
issue. Also the difference of the GPGSV values support this idea. Tomorrow evening i will ask a specialist to check the antenna signal qualities. Maybe a cable is broken or there is a short circuit on the main board. I ll report about the results. CU Kai 2008/7/6 Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 07 July 2008, Kai Römer wrote: Hi Al, If you need testers, please contact me. I have several gta02v5 available and can do tests in Germany Munich. First stab uses the example perl functions from ublox for generating the aid-ini data, replacing their hardcoded x,y,z with values for

Re: Posible Bluetooth Keyboard

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Diego Fdez. Durán wrote: Hi all! At the moment my FR is travelling to me, so I'm looking for a good portable bluetooth keyboard. What do you think about BT KB? what about Nokia SU-8W? The Stowaway from iGo / ThinkOutside works nicely for me.

Re: GPS

2008-07-07 Thread Al Johnson
, and that it's borderline with the built in antenna. I guess sample to sample variation may mean some people will get a fix reasonably quickly and others may not get one at all. Al Johnson wrote: On Monday 07 July 2008, Kai Römer wrote: Hi Al, If you need testers, please contact me. I have

Re: WLAN not working

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
Going to try updating and upgrading now. Al Johnson skrev: I am using WPA-PSK successfully on the Freerunner using a simple wpa_supplicant.conf and one extra line in /etc/network/interfaces as described at the end of http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GTA02_wlan It is on interface eth0

Re: Car charger to GTA02

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Sa 5. Juli 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): btw has ever written the howto (we was talking about some months ago) for adding an ID resistor to a standard USB charger? Too many different usb-connectors out there, most of them

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 05 July 2008, Al Johnson wrote: so, is there a fullblown keyboard (hopefully with up/down and tab, so one can sroll in hitory and use completion)? opkg list | grep keyboard gives only matchbox-strokes which looks nice but is not really functional I found the same as you last

Re: GPS

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
From what I've seen on the wiki the version of the Antares4 on the GTA02 doesn't have the memory needed to store almanac and ephemeris, last known position or time. This means that every start is a true cold start, unlike every other reasonably modern GPS we're comparing it to. It starts up

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 06 July 2008, arne anka wrote: It works. Where I used to get the multitap-pad I now get the matchbox keyboard. It's not as high so you get to see more of the app, but the keys are smaller so harder to hit without a stylus. It seems to offer a full keyboard, including Esc, Tab,

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-06 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 06 July 2008, arne anka wrote: did it too and built openmoko-keyboard. installation went flawlessly, the only trap was the need to reboot. i put the three ipk and a short instruction at http://www.ginguppin.de/node/15 Nice job. Looks like I was wrong about the dependencies :-)

Re: on screen keyboard?

2008-07-05 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 05 July 2008, arne anka wrote: hi, somebody asked thsi already a while ago (but got no answer): is there a package available providing a better keyboard than that included w/ the freerunner, resembling a multi tap phone keyboard? honestly, i can't figure out a rationale for

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